Feat Tuesday: I hear you moan, I hear you moan, I hear you moan.
Billy he got so sad, dejected, put on his hat and start to run Runnin’ down the street yellin’ at the top […]
Author: Dan Hull
Sensitive Litigation Moment No. 14: Remember arbitration? How was that supposed to work, anyway?
Is there a way to stop feeding the monster? It’s clear that both globally and in the U.S., arbitration and “ADR” have […]
Club Ned Evening Wear: Overheard in Palisades.
“Honey, just wear a black turtleneck–even Ned Beatty looks good in a black turtleneck.” Club Ned: Beatty looks happy and relaxed just […]
Friday the 13th: Did You Have a Bad Week?
In old Rome, witches gathered in groups of 12–and a 13th was believed to be the devil. There’s also a Norse gods […]
An incomplete person. A negligent citizen. And a drag to have around.
Is the client rep or GC you’re going to lunch with a Marshall or Fulbright scholar? Well, do not drag people under […]
Challenges, twists, prima donnas–and hard work.
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. –Humphrey Bogart You think life in law and business is hard? What if […]
Redux – Prof. Bruce Antkowiak: “Why Law Schools Must Reform”.
Law firms cannot be expected to do 95% of the work of lawyer-building. In that regime, clients suffer the most. The U.S. […]
Huxley.
Many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. The craving […]
The Economist: America, bin Laden & killing abroad.
Our take? We are at war; the killing of bin Laden Sunday was a legitimate, straightforward and better-than-usual U.S. military operation. But […]
Sensitive Litigation Moment No. 7: The Holy Surprise of Rule 56(d), Fed. R. Civ. P.
Disruptive as Hell: The “early-in-case” Rule 56 motion (note well-dressed Brit GC after taking a bullet here). (d) When Facts Are Unavailable […]
Pantheon: Chrissie Hynde.
Midwest-bred rocker Hynde is said to have no fear of anything or anyone. One of the earliest inductees into our Pantheon. Way […]
Cafe de la Mairie, Amour Propre–and Badaude.
If like us you love, and are always missing, Paris, you must too love its waiters–and their “outsize helping of amour propre“. […]
Can-Do Catharsis in America: Bin Laden Killed on Obama Order.
Lafayette Park Flash Mob May 2, 2011. Photo: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Redux – Scott Greenfield: Real Rebel. Real Lawyer. Rare Straight-Up Sane.
(From a May 23, 2009 post, “Slackoisie-Fest: Fighting Loserism“) Ben Franklin, Tom Edison and Clarence Darrow root for Greenfield in Doers’ Heaven. […]
Hoplessly depraved popes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI
If your U.S. client trades abroad, the UCC won’t always give you the answer.
If you buy and sell in the global markets, the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is […]
Redux: If your U.S. client trades abroad, the UCC won’t always give you the answer.
If you buy and sell in the global markets, the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is […]
Ancient Easter: The Hill of Slane.
An Easter Week Druid Setback. In 433 A.D., the day before Easter, St. Patrick lit a bonfire here as part of his […]
At Cross-Culture: Caste, Class and Lower England.
I am his Highness’ dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? –Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Englishman, poet, satirist. At […]
Bennet Kelley: The GOP’s Borat Budget.
Will the GOP budget make America “the only developed nation in the world that aspires to be Kazakhstan”? See Bennet Kelley’s new […]
Los Angeles
“Hollywood is the one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.” —Dorothy Parker
Writing Well: The Rain Man v. The Boilerplate Vampires.
Our friend Ray Ward is a man any new hire–an ambitious law clerk, sought-after first-year associate, needy Teacup, stressed Tubbie, or flat-out […]
Overheard in Brentwood.
Every time I listen to other people, everything just gets all f_cked up. –Guy in a restaurant
Confucius Said: Un-Friend Lames. Un-Follow Beavis/Butthead. Surround Yourself with Equals or Betters.
Have no friends not equal to yourself. — Confucius (551 BC”“479 BC) The unproductive Age of PC Nice of the last several […]
Looking Back at Women’s History Month: Interview with Jack Nicholson.
The third and final installment–Hour Three–of Dan Hull’s recent 3-hour podcast with Jack Nicholson airs on Wednesday, April 6 at 12:00 noon […]
How should you really handle “Difficult People” and “A-Holes” at Work?
Answer: Learn from them. Hire them. Try to keep them. Work with, for, through and around them. Cultivate The Difficult and even […]